[ADEQ Media] ADEQ Director Steve Owens Announces Recycling Scholarship Recipients

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ADEQ Director Steve Owens Announces Recycling Scholarship Recipients 

PHOENIX (March 20, 2007) - Arizona Department of Environmental Quality
(ADEQ) Director Steve Owens today announced that ADEQ has awarded
scholarships under the department's Recycling Scholarship Program to
eight Arizona high school seniors:

Kathryn Anderson, Desert Mountain High School, Scottsdale

Erin Eppard, Thunderbird High School, Phoenix

Rebecca Heathman, Peoria Transition Center, Peoria

Reem Kamai, Cortez High School, Phoenix

Noel Palmer, Desert Mountain High School, Scottsdale

Raymundo Reyes, Glendale High School, Glendale

Rachel Rezer, Desert Christian High School, Tucson

Eric Wannlund, Red Mountain High School, Mesa

Each of these students will receive a $1,000 scholarship to be used for
expenses at a college or university in Arizona. The scholarship
recipients were selected by ADEQ based on the proposals they submitted
to ADEQ outlining a waste reduction or recycling project in their school
or community that they will implement during this month.

"The purpose of this innovative scholarship program is to encourage
Arizona students to think about ways to protect the environment while
helping them meet the escalating costs of college," Director Owens said.
"These eight high school seniors came up with some terrific ideas for
recycling projects."

Owens said ADEQ developed the scholarship program to encourage school
recycling activities throughout the state. The scholarship program is
funded by the ADEQ Recycling Grant Program.

Information about the scholarship program is available on ADEQ's Web
site, http://www.azdeq.gov/environ/waste/solid/program.html.

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